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diff --git a/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md b/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md index 90699f34e..3e0490c70 100644 --- a/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md +++ b/share/doc/homebrew/Formula-Cookbook.md @@ -104,7 +104,15 @@ We generally try to not duplicate system libraries and complicated tools in core One very special exception is OpenSSL. Anything that uses OpenSSL *should* be built using Homebrew’s shipped OpenSSL and our test bot's post-install `audit` will warn if it detects you haven't done this. -Homebrew’s OpenSSL is [`keg_only`](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/homebrew/master/Formula#keg_only-class_method) to avoid conflicting with the system so sometimes formulae need to have environmental variables set or special configuration flags passed to locate our OpenSSL. You can see this mechanism in the [clamav](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/clamav.rb#L28) formula. Usually this is unnecessary because when OpenSSL is specified as a dependency Homebrew temporarily prepends the `$PATH` with that prefix. +Homebrew’s OpenSSL is +[`keg_only`](http://www.rubydoc.info/github/Homebrew/homebrew/master/Formula#keg_only-class_method) +to avoid conflicting with the system so sometimes formulae need to +have environment variables set or special configuration flags passed +to locate our OpenSSL. You can see this mechanism in the +[clamav](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/clamav.rb#L28) +formula. Usually this is unnecessary because when OpenSSL is specified +as a dependency Homebrew temporarily prepends the `$PATH` with that +prefix. Homebrew maintains a special [tap that provides other useful system duplicates](https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes). |